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Select.Pdf Library for .NET – 2016 Vol 4 has just been released. Together with the full featured pdf library, the community edition of our SelectPdf Html To Pdf Converter for .NET v2.4 was also released.

The release contains a lot of speed improvements and bug fixes (svg rendering improvements, web fonts rendering improvements, right to left texts bug fix).The 2 products can be downloaded from SelectPdf.com website or via NuGet.

Starting with this version, SelectPdf also offers an optimized version of the PDF library for x64 systems.– Download assemblies: SelectPdf Assemblies for x86 and x64 systems– NuGet package for x64 version: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Select.Pdf.x64/

For more details about our html to pdf converter or any other feature related to our pdf library for .NET, do not hesitate to contact SelectPdf[^].

With version 22 of the report generator for software developers, which has been undergoing constant development for the past 25 years, combit once again presents well-thought-out upgrades and useful features. The software manufacturer from Konstanz/Germany not only considered the needs of developers, but also of the users of the List & Label Report Designer. For example, when creating reports in the Designer, users will benefit from being able to keep groups/data together in tables. Favorites for properties provide a better overview, and animation options in the preview make additional presentation programs such as MS PowerPoint superfluous. The new features have also made crosstabs more comprehensive. Multiple result cells and cross-references give users the freedom to calculate everything that’s important. Drop-down areas and the automatic fill-up of missing data ranges provide a clearer overview and make data analysis easier. In addition to the new radar and treemap charts, most other charts can also be sorted according to the result value.

.NET developers will receive a wide range of new possibilities thanks to a virtual file system (repository). This means that web-based projects will get drill-down support, project templates, a table of contents, and an index. And because it is stream-based, desktop/server applications also benefit from this. The new WPF wrapper for the preview brings a number of new interactive features to WPF applications.

“List & Label 22 is the first version for which we are offering long-term support (LTS). Customers with an Enterprise Edition will now receive more comprehensive support until the next LTS version is released in approximately 2 years,” said Jochen Bartlau, Managing Director and Head of Development List & Label, explaining the extended support. “In particular, customers with larger projects and longer release cycles are set to benefit from this,” Bartlau added.

All the details for the new version can be found online at:https://www.combit.net/en/reporting-tool/report-generator-list-label-new-version/

FEATURE DETAILS

Radar ChartThe radar chart is ideal for visualizing relationships between different categories. Lines or areas can be used, either single or stacked. Hidden areas can be shown by displaying an outline.

TreemapTreemaps show hierarchical data in the form of (also recursively) nested rectangles. The areas indicate size/quantity ratios and are proportional to the corresponding value. Drill-down reports via report parameters are also possible.

Chart LayoutThe line type can be configured for coordinate lines (horizontal and vertical). Symbols in the chart can now optionally be assigned by the users themselves.

Sort Charts by ValueIn addition to the current alphanumeric sorting method for the data series/category axis, the chart can now also be sorted according to the result value. Users benefit from the clearer presentation.

Top-N and ‘Others’ in Most ChartsUsers can limit the data of a chart with Top-N to highlight important information. Data that does not correspond to the Top-N parameters will be aggregated under ‘Others’.

New Features in CrosstabsThe following new features in crosstabs provide expanded usage options:- Multiple result cells: LL22 allows for multiple result cells. Sums can therefore be directly compared.- Cross-references: The contents of other cells can be shown with different calculations, for example displaying a percentage or the difference between base values. This means less additional calculations for users.- Expandable regions: If only the currently required data ranges are shown, users can analyze the data significantly faster and more easily.- Automatic fill-in: This feature makes it easier to perform comparisons when data is missing from areas being compared.- Top-N ‘Others’: After the Top-N entries, reports also optionally show the ‘Others’ values of the category as a sum. This makes it easier to classify the top entries according to their significance.

Virtual File System (Repository)The new virtual file system removes crucial restrictions that previously existed for web-based projects. With the repository, more options are available in the Web Designer, and its range of features now more closely resembles that of the classic Desktop Designer. Among other things, project templates, drill-down support, tables of contents, and indexes are now available here too.

WPF Wrapper for PreviewA new control brings several new features to WPF applications: Displaying of pages created while printing, drill-down, interactive sorting, report parameters, and expandable regions.

Long-term Support (LTS)For the Enterprise Edition, long-term support is available from LL22 onwards. combit supports versions with an even version number (22, 24, …) for approximately two years, until a new LTS version is released. This means developers with longer release cycles receive comprehensive support for even longer than before.

Favorites for PropertiesThe List & Label Designer offers a wide range of configuration options. Developers who require concise and clearly-laid out property windows for their users enable this feature for their customers with favorites.

AnimationsInstead of having to use PowerPoint or other presentation tools, users can simply animate report objects individually in the preview. This makes the creation of presentations more efficient.

Keep groups/data togetherIn order to avoid the undesirable separation of data in tables due to page breaks, there is now a new, configurable Designer feature. Available for .NET and C++ with data provider.

BarcodesMicroPDF417 and Codablock F expand the range of barcodes in LL22. GS1 Application Identifiers are fully supported. A new Designer feature allows for the calculation of checksums with any weighting.

Debwin4Debug output can now also be logged quickly and easily for web applications and services, regardless of the process or its user context.

Logging InterfaceWith the new logging interface, developers can integrate the logging output into the existing logging of their own application for optimal analysis or use proven logging frameworks such as log4net or NLog.

LIST & LABEL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Thousands of development teams and millions of end users worldwide trust in the award winning List & Label report generator. With List & Label software developers extend their applications with powerful reporting functions and have access to every kind of data processing and data exchange, in classic applications as well as in web reporting or in the cloud. List & Label is available in three editions. Prices for the Standard Edition starting at EUR 650 / US$ 691. The subscription editions are available from EUR 1200 / US$ 1276, each excluding VAT (Exchange rate as of 11/22/2016).

The industry spreadsheet leader adds new data visualization and presentation controls for the web and usability enhancements for all platforms.

Raleigh, NC - November 17, 2016 - GrapeCity, a leading provider of data visualization, analysis, spreadsheets, and reporting components, announced a major update to their spreadsheet collection, Spread Studio v10 and a new offering for JavaScript developers, SpreadJS.

While Spread is traditionally known for .NET technology, GrapeCity now provides a new JavaScript spreadsheet and data presentation solution for enterprise JavaScript developers, SpreadJS. SpreadJS includes Spread.Sheets, for complete spreadsheet functionality, and Spread.Views, a next-generation data presentation and layout engine.

This release of SpreadJS introduces an entirely new way for JavaScript developers to present their data using the new Spread.Views. Spread.Views go beyond traditional tabular display by including a variety of views that the developer can choose from, such as tree, card, masonry, trellis, timeline, news feed, Gantt, calendar, and grid. Use Spread.Views layouts for analysis, performance monitoring, data reporting, dashboards, product catalogs, ecommerce, news feeds, project management applications, and much more. Spread.Sheets also includes many new enhancements such as Client-side Excel IO, cross-platform designers that work in Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and major performance enhancements that make it one of the fastest spreadsheets on the market. "Features such as these set SpreadJS apart from any other product of its kind," commented Donald Williamson. "SpreadJS is so more than a Spreadsheet. You need to experience it to fully appreciate it."

All components in Spread Studio v10 work with Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015, and Excel 2016. For ASP.NET apps, new features include new charts, formula extenders, touch toolbar, and better support for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. Williamson reiterated GrapeCity's commitment to the development community, "Windows developers have relied on Spread to support Microsoft's latest releases for over 20 years and this latest round is no exception."

Spread's WinForms components received many other data visualization and UI enhancements such as adding support for new popular charts, new cell types to provide a better data entry experience, and enhanced printing support. "WinForms development is still relevant and we strive to support modern devices and user experience standards," said Williamson.

About GrapeCityGrapeCity is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, and one of the world’s largest providers of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. For close to 30 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services, and solutions. For more company information, visit the Spread division website at http://spread.grapecity.com. Follow on Twitter @GCSpread.###

PITTSBURGH, PA – November 17, 2016 - GrapeCity, the largest component solution provider in the Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem and Visual Studio 2017 RC Extension Sim-Ship Partner, today announced the 2016 v3 release of its world-renowned Ultimate offering which bundles the time-saving data and UI controls from ComponentOne Studio, Wijmo, and Xuni together for developers building future-proof web, desktop, and mobile business applications.

In this release the company’s JavaScript control collection now includes support for ReactJS and VueJS. Add to this the company’s existing support for Angular2, AngularJS, and Knockout and it presents the most comprehensive interop story in the market. “Developers who need to maintain apps in Angular 1 and 2, while developing new ones in React or Vue, are able to use the exact same components/controls—Wijmo supports them all, with no dependencies,” said Chris Bannon, global product manager at GrapeCity.

The final installment of the three releases in 2016, Ultimate v3 introduces FinancialChart in WinForms, Universal Windows Platform, and Windows Presentation Foundation; a new JavaScript ReportViewer; and is now shipping source code with the company’s FlexReport Designer app. The new controls and added functionality empowers every developer to build the most complete and modern applications for any platform, any device with less coding.

“From being the first control vendor to deliver production ready controls fully supporting Angular 2, to offering developers migration paths from Silverlight and LightSwitch, to embracing new open-source and cross-platform frameworks in order to deliver timely solutions to developers, our focus has been customer-driven development,” said Bannon. “With this customer-driven approach, developers are benefiting from the constant product improvements end-to-end, which further strengthens the success of Ultimate’s developer tools.”

When creating reports for WinForms, WPF, and UWP, the company’s FlexReport Designer offers a code-free option for migrating or building modern .NET apps with design-time and data source editors. Now that the source code is available for FlexReport, users can take code snippets and embed the Designer within their application without running an executable, and in addition may further customize it to meet their needs.

Today’s release builds upon Ultimate’s intuitive, universal API, which is the heart of the product when it comes to powerful data visualization features, built-in interactivity, and customization. The product has been further enhanced in this release with the addition of FinancialChart for WinForms, WPF, and UWP, which offers an all-in-one financial chart control for stock dashboards.

“With developers everywhere being tasked with delivering fast, feature-complete applications in less time, the need for flexible UI controls is increasing and GrapeCity is in the position to provide the developer community exactly what they need to accomplish their projects,” said Bannon. “We are developers ourselves and we are looking to help other developers solve some of the same problems we experience, which frees up time that can be directed towards business logic.”

Additions to the Flex Core controls in the 2016 v3 release include: FlexViewer for MVC, an HTML5 based report viewer that offers full print support and offers a rich viewer feature set such as search, zoom, and document map. For developers looking to display multivariate observations and chart performance metrics, FlexChart’s Polar and Radar charts provide various chart types for creating circular and weather charts. Other developers who may want to expand their charting possibilities with Sunburst charts within FlexChart, will be able to plot hierarchical data in an enhanced pie chart with animation features and data binding.

The company offers a no-charge, 30-day trial of Ultimate, which may be downloaded at http://www.componentone.com/ultimate. Online visitors may also access tutorials, forums, documentation, and videos as part of the GrapeCity experience.

Promos

CYBER MONDAY SAVINGS: November 28 only, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM EST, the company is offering 50% off new licenses of Ultimate. Save $1000 off MSRP and deliver fast, flexible, enterprise grade applications across platforms and devices.

END OF YEAR SAVINGS: November 29 to December 31, the company is offering $500 off new licenses of Ultimate. Save 25% off MSRP and deliver fast, flexible, enterprise grade applications across platforms and devices.

Offers are available by contacting GrapeCity directly http://www.componentone.com/Pages/ContactInfo/ or through any member of its reseller network.

About GrapeCityGrapeCity is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, and one of the world’s largest providers of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. For close to 30 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services, and solutions. For more company information, visit the ComponentOne Studio division website at http://www.componentone.com. Follow on Twitter @componentone or “Like” on Facebook www.facebook.com/componentone.

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Devart team has released a new version of Oracle IDE, dbForge Studio for Oracle v.3.9 with completely redesigned Visual Object Editors and Database Search as well as with improved Data Viewer and Editor window.

Devart, a recognized vendor of professional database management software for developers and DBAs, has released a new version of dbForge Studio for Oracle v3.9.

dbForge Studio for Oracle v3.9 now includes the following new features and improvements:
*The Database Search tool has been completely redesigned for optimal search of both – objects and data
*Visual Object Editors have been totally redesigned
*Virtual Columns are now supported in Visual Object Editors and Schema Compare
*Greatly improved suggestion performance
*Improved XML View and new JSON View for Data Editor and Viewer Window
*Generate Script As now supports selection of multiple objects
*Styled icons are used by default.

In addition, now dbForge Studio for Oracle 3.9 comes with a new icon design.

dbForge Studio for Oracle is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for Oracle, which helps developers to increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing data. This tool for Oracle allows synchronizing data between different Oracle servers and automating schema change management process during development. It also contains lots of features wrapped into a smooth GUI consistent with Microsoft Visual Studio.

dbForge Studio for Oracle v3.9 is freely available for a 30-day evaluation period. The product license prices start from $149.45.

Devart is one of the leading developers of database tools and administration software, ALM solutions, data providers for various database servers, data integration and backup solutions. The company also implements Web and Mobile development projects.

An introduction to the idea of "Event Sourcing" and discussion of how you can use it as the basis for a distributed system with the emphasis on the underlying ideas rather than focussing on any specific framework or programming language. Beginner's level talk, almost no code but mostly diagrams, discussion and Lego.

Devart has released a new tool dbForge Documenter for SQL Server for quick generation of database documentation and upgraded dbForge Developer Bundle for SQL Server with SQL Server 2016 support.

Devart, a Czech software vendor of database tools and data connectivity solutions, has released a new database documentation tool, dbForge Documenter for SQL Server v1.0, designed to yield comprehensive nice-looking technical description of SQL Server databases.

The new Documenter tool delivers the following features:

Extracts an extensive database info about all SQL object types, their details and properties, as well as inter-object dependencies and source code.

There are capabilities to personalize and customize documentation, to select database objects and properties for each individual object to be included in the documentation. There is also a number of style templates as well as the ability to apply Bootstrap themes to get a nice-looking layout.

Support for HTML and PDF formats. The former suits for databases to be published on the web, and the latter is good for distributing to various systems and devices. Both formats are searchable, which is very convenient especially for large databases.

Ability to annotate all parts of database. With MS_Description properties supported, annotations to every SQL object including views, tables, columns, indexes, foreign keys, stored procedures can be added.

Integration with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Databases may be documented directly from the Object Explorer of SSMS solution.

Documenter is included in dbForge Developer Bundle for SQL Server, an ultimate toolkit of add-ins for SQL Server Management Studio that combines feature-rich functionality allowing to version-control databases, compare schemas and data, optimize database performance, write SQL queries on a fly, generate meaningful test data, and much more straight in the SSMS IDE.

Now, all the SSMS add-ins included in dbForge Developer Bundle for SQL Server are compatible with SQL Server 2016 and the latest SQL Server Management Studio 2016.

Kueri is a software SDK library that enables the integration of a simple to use search-box that enables end-users to enter Natural Language questions and then converts those questions in properly formatted database queries such as SQL or JSON.

The basic user experience includes as-you-type real-time suggestions that help the end users in the construction of their questions. The suggestions are base on the connected database structure, parts of the database's values and content, and the user's question history.

Kueri is not a drag-and-drop solution (like a JAR or DLL you would add to your project), but rather a deployed solution - a server that provides an API via XML-RPC protocol.

The Kueri download pack contains the server engine itself, the Kueri Admin interface, and a simple demo page which provides examples for embedding the search box. Kueri Admin is used to configure connections to databases, the semantic mapping, indexing, test the system, and many more.

In order to make proper use of the SDK, you first have to install Kueri Server, connect and configure your data source in the Kueri Admin, and finally integrate with the API.

Kueri Search-Box

The Kueri search-box allows users to ask questions using natural language in order to interact with data. There are two modes to the search-box:The Free ModeThe Guided Mode.

The Free Mode is more convenient as the user is capable of typing any input in English, and Kueri makes an attempt to understand the meaning behind the input and generate the relevant Run query. When it be calculated, The Run query is displayed in italic grey just beneath the input box. This Run query can be efficiently converted into a SQL query on the database.Here, the Run query is seen in grey underneath the search-box.

The Guided mode allows you to directly create a Run query, but there the user must follow a strict sequence of elements when creating a question.

For example, you can see that although the input contains the word "by", the Guided Mode sentence includes the words "grouped by" below.

Embedding Kueri in your website

The Kueri package comes ready with several HTML samples which are configured to run against your Kueri server.

Basically, the search-box complete with look-ahead suggestions is already implemented in a single JavaScript library, which can also take care of visualization of the results. Simply take from the supplied samples the relevant parts you require and integrate into your host solution and finish up bu making the necessary few configuration modifications.

Inside the Kueri SDK downloadable package there are several demo pages, prepared for the most common use cases.demo_ textbox_sql - Shows simple input box, with conversion to SQL.demo_suggestbox_sql - A page that embeds the search box, and merely displays the SQL. This is a simple demo page for testing.demo_anonymous - This page is used when authentication is unwarranted.This demo also provides visualization of the results in a table using the Knockout framework.Note that the data source should allow anonymous access via API, otherwise Kueri will require authentication.demo_with_login - This page includes a page for user authentication before asking questions.See Users section to manage users inside the Kueri Admin.

MindFusion WinForms chart control has been completely redesigned and developed from scratch to achieve a lean software architecture, greatly improved performance and a huge number of new features.

Brand new data model

Data that should be drawn in charts is read through an interface called Series, whose instances can be assigned to the Series properties of Chart and SeriesRenderer classes. Developers can implement this interface in their own model classes to avoid duplicating data. The library includes several pre-defined series classes that can be used to specify data via IList or array objects.

New rendering model

Chart graphics are drawn inside Plot components by SeriesRenderer-derived objects. Each plot can contain multiple series renderers from same or different types. For example area, line and bar graphics can be drawn in the same plot by adding AreaRenderer, LineRenderer and BarRenderer objects to its SeriesRenderers collection. Chart controls automatically generate a series renderer of appropriate type for their Series.

Dashboard

The newly added Dashboard control can contain multiple plots, axes, legends, images, gauges and text blocks arranged in dynamic layout. Individual components can be added to dashboard’s default RootPanel or LayoutPanel containers, or for more complex layouts add intermediary panels such as GridPanel and StackPanel to the default ones. To show different types of chart graphics, developers can add Plot2D to draw in 2D Cartesian coordinate system, Plot3D for 3D Cartesian system, and PolarPlot for polar coordinate system. To draw horizontal or vertical axes, the objects to add are respectively XAxisRenderer and YAxisRenderer. To show gauges, developers should add LinearGaugeRenderer or OvalGaugeRenderer, whose Gauge property contains the gauge model definition.

Print and export

The Dashboard control and Chart controls that derive from it expose Print and PrintPreview methods for printing on paper. The ExportImage and CreateImage methods generate bitmap image of the dashboard. The ExportPdf method exports the chart to a PDF (Portable Document Format) file. The ExportSvg method exports the chart to an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file.

Styling

Values of appearance properties can come from several places in the component hierarchy. SeriesRenderer-derived objects can use attributes from their local SeriesStyle, from plot’s SeriesStyle, or from the *Series properties in current Theme. Component classes use either their local properties or ones defined in a theme. By default, appearance properties in SeriesRenderer and Component classes have null values, which makes the drawing code use values from the theme.

ORPALIS is pleased to announce the release of a new free HTML5 Document Viewer solution for ASP.NET, DocuVieware Lite. It is a fast and powerful tool for developers to add loading and viewing capabilities to their web applications.

DocuVieware Lite provides Rich User Experience with innovative features to develop web applications that are altogether robust, light, dynamic, interactive and productive. At no cost.

A powerful and innovative engineDocuVieware Lite is a modern HTML5/AJAX control to load images and documents and see them instantly displayed in the viewer. It provides various and high-level client/server performance optimizations to get a fast and crystal clear rendering.

A light applicationDocuVieware Lite is a zero-footprint viewer, meaning that there is no client side installation, download or digital certificate required. All processing tasks are performed on server-side: this way the resources of user's computer/mobile device are not used and it avoids slowing the processes.

A secured and productive solution for usersEverything is managed server-side and the content is secured. As a zero-footprint viewer DocuVieware Lite is a really productive solution for the user as there is no time spent to download files, the content is accessible everywhere at any time.

A flexible toolDocuVieware Lite is a flexible solution: it is cross-platform, meaning that it is accessible from any of the various modern web browsers within different operating systems. It is mobile device friendly thanks to its responsive design.An easy integration for developersThe SDK’s efficient architecture includes sophisticated optimizations but is very easy to integrate with just a few lines of code. DocuVieware Lite’s User Interface is localized and can be translated in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Slovak, Czech, Arabic and Romanian).

A viewer with many features

More than 100 file formats are supported by DocuVieware lite. The supported compression schemes include JPEG, JPEG2000, JBIG2 and more. The documents formats include PDF, DOCX, TXT, SVG, DICOM, TIFF, PNG and more. RAW camera image formats support is also provided.

With DocuVieware Lite it is possible to navigate through documents, zoom-in and zoom-out, rotate pages and select text. Navigation in continuous page view mode is automatically enabled for multipage documents. DocuVieware Lite provides enhanced quality zooming, particularly for zoom-out actions and rotation performed on documents preserve the document’s original quality.The text selection feature is very accurate in text searchable documents and allows the user to copy to the clipboard.

Licensing DocuVieware Lite is a free HTML5 document viewer with a very simple licensing model. The same license key is used for both development and deployment context. The SDK can be used by an unlimited number of developers and deployed on an unlimited number of servers. It can be distributed via the on-premises (the web applications created with DocuVieware Lite are hosted on the customers/clients servers) and SaaS (Software as a Service, which is a cloud-based service) models without any restriction.

Technical supportTutorials are available for an ASP.NET Web Forms (DocuVieware Reference Guide[^]) and for a MVC Razor integration (DocuVieware Reference Guide[^]). Technical support is provided on a public dedicated forum and on a private helpdesk for issues involving personal or sensitive data that cannot be shared on a community forum.

ORPALIS is specialized in automating large-scale document-based processes, providing document imaging and document-management toolkits as well as software tools for the general public. ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive document imaging toolkit series released under the brand "GdPicture", now a worldwide known and respected leader in the imaging technologies industry. More than 12,000 developers based in over 70 countries have included GdPicture components in their applications. In 2011 ORPALIS releases PaperScan, marking the beginning of a new line of products meant for end-users. PDF Reducer is launched in 2013. In 2015 a most powerful universal HTML5 viewer and document management kit called DocuVieware is made available to the public. The same year, a software tool for converting scanned documents to the searchable PDF/OCR format, the ORPALIS PDF OCR, is launched. In 2016 DocuVieware Lite Free HTML5 Document Viewer is released. orpalis.com / gdpicture.com / docuvieware.com

Devart released a new product line - ODBC Drivers for Clouds for easy access to the most popular cloud apps and CRMs.

Devart announced a new product line - ODBC Drivers for Clouds. It includes solutions for connecting via ODBC to such cloud applications and CRMs as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM, Zoho CRM, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, MailChimp, BigCommerce, Magento and Salesforce Marketing Cloud (formerly known as ExactTarget).

Key features:

- Drivers fully support standard ODBC API functions and data types, multiple server data types and features.- Advanced connection string parameters provided to allow any desktop and web applications to access cloud databases from various environments and platforms, that support ODBC.- Full Unicode support provides capacity to interpret Unicode function calls without the intervention of the Driver Manager.- Advanced data conversion from cloud data types to native ODBC data types.- Support for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms provides capabilities to develop both 32-bit and 64-bit cross-platform database applications.

LightningChart has been able to achieve BILLION (1,000,000,000) data points scrolling line plot that no other WPF or WinForms charting component has ever been able to. Groundbreaking performanceBy intelligently utilizing continuously evolving gaming technologies, graphics cards features and processing power, LightningChart was able to achieve BILLION (1,000,000,000) data points scrolling line plot. In previous benchmarking tests (2013) smooth line streaming with high data point counts LightningChart was able to set a new record of 20 million (20,000,000) data points. This was unique then, but 2016 LightningChart set the standards in this industry at a totally new level and achieved scrolling line plot of BILLION (1,000,000,000) data points. This has not been achieved by any other WPF or WinForms charting component. LightningChart real-time optimized series, and can efficiently visualize real-time data feeds no other WPF or WinForms charting component can.

To improve performance, some charts use data resampling/downsampling. Resampling loses data details as majority of the data points are skipped or visualized inaccurately. LightningChart's groundbreaking efficiency enables real-time rendering without having to use these kinds of tricks.

Background: The LightningChartLightningChart is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio, a data visualization toolkit.

Arction was the first manufacturer to introduce real DirectX 2D rendering for WinForms charting industry in 2009. Arction was also the first manufacturer to introduce real hardware acceleration with DirectX for WPF charting industry in 2013, with low level DirectX rendering for 2D and 3D charts.

LightningChart's is especially designed for very demanding scientific, financial and engineering applications. By having lots of different visualization types, rich feature sets, configurability, touch screen interactivity, superb rendering quality and new volume rendering technology, Arction claims LightningChart to be not just the fastest, but also the most advanced charting toolkit in the industry.

Technical setup of breaking the recordLightningChart WPF v.7.1 preliminary release was used, in a Visual Studio WPF C# project. Periodically, selected count of data points are appended in the tail of each series, by using a timer. When the chart gets full (reaches right edge), the chart starts to scroll the view.

LightningChart's fixed-interval series type was used, with 32-bit floating point accuracy to save memory. Line was set to rounded-joint style, 2 pixels wide, anti-aliased line. Coloring effect by Y value was applied, to colorize the lines with alarm limits; blue for low levels, red for high levels.

Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, is pleased to announce the release of PDF Automation Server v2016R1, the latest version of Qoppa Software’s flagship PDF processing server.

The new version of PDF Automation Server delivers PDF functionality through a REST API for integration of PDF processing into third party workflow systems and custom applications. By packaging all of Qoppa’s PDF processing functions into a RESTful server, Qoppa makes it possible for its customers to integrate PDF functions into any of its enterprise applications seamlessly. Try PDF Rest API

Additionally, Qoppa continues to improve on the workflow module of PDF Automation Server by adding a custom PDF scripting module, which opens up a full API to work with PDF documents. The custom scripting module allows workflows to be more flexible and to use external services as part of the processing of PDF documents.

As more and more companies and industries are replacing paper with PDF documents, and implementing document driven processes automatically across the enterprise, Qoppa PDF Automation Server has become an essential tool in IT infrastructure.

Full Release Notes for PDF Automation Server v2016R1

About Qoppa’s PDF Automation Server:

Qoppa’s PDF Automation Server (PAS) is a standalone server application to automate PDF workflows. Based on Qoppa’s proprietary PDF technology, it automates the receiving, processing, and routing of files on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX), and any other Java enabled platform. PAS accepts incoming files of multiple types from local and network folders, email, or ftp servers. Based on preset criteria, PAS then performs a wide range of manipulations, including assembly, conversion, printing, stamping, digital signing, security management, preflight checking, and more. Once changed, both the original files and the output files can be routed to a range of destinations.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of high-end Java libraries and applications to work with PDF documents. Qoppa Software offers a suite of products that cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows, including end-user, server and PDF library products. Qoppa’s products are carefully designed and developed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability.

Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 11 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF Studio 11 adds a number of new features including Spell Check, Non-Latin OCR Languages, Output Preview, & Enhanced Print Dialog

spell_checkBy popular request, PDF Studio now comes with a Spell Checker. Spell check highlights misspelled words when creating text annotations, typing annotation comments, and filling interactive form fields. Users are able to set various options including highlight color, ignore all caps or numbers, and add/edit custom words to the dictionary. PDF Studio 11 offers 9 different languages options and even support spell checking more than one language at the same time! Languages supported are Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

cjk PDF Studio 11 also introduces a brand new OCR engine that now supports non-Latin and CJK languages. A total of 46 new OCR languages are now available such as Chinese (simplified & traditional), Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, and many more. In addition to the new languages, PDF Studio also has the ability to select 2 languages at once to use when OCRing documents containing multiple languages on each page.

output_preview Professionals in the printing industry will enjoy the new Output Preview including overprint simulation. Output preview is used to simulate how the document will look once printed using different color profiles such as CMYK, RGB, and grey. Overprint simulates how overlapping colors will look when mixed on the page. The new dialog can easily switch between print simulation and display and the background color of the document can also be changed to simulate printing on different colored paper.

enhanced_print_dialogprint PDF Studio 11 comes with a New Enhanced Print Dialog with new features including Print Preview, Print to file, and booklet printing. Print Preview allows users to see what the document look like prior to being printed and adjustments can be made in real time if necessary. Print to file creates a .prn file instead of printing directly to the printer. Useful if you need to send the document to a printing press that only prints on a specific printer. Booklet printing turns a multi-page document into a folded booklet.

Qoppa Software produces cross-platform PDF software for end-users and developers. Our PDF tools and libraries cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows. Qoppa Software was founded in 2002 and is located in Atlanta, GA.

Prague, Czech Republic, 27 May 2016 - Devart announced a new release of ORM designing tool Entity Developer 6.0. The new version allows users to visually design Telerik Data Access and Entity Framework Core models and generate code for them.

Since Data Access Q2 2015, Telerik deprecated visual designer and Visual Studio tools for their ORM. Entity Framework developers also abandoned visual model designer in favour of code only mapping solution. However, there are a lot of users, who prefer visual ORM model development. With the new Entity Developer 6.0 version, Telerik Data Access and Entity Framework users can work with their models visually again, while enjoying all the benefits of the latest ORM versions.

Entity Developer fully supports database-first and model-first approaches, updating of model from the database and database from the model. It offers all the necessary tools for visual creating ORM models and generating code for context, entities, and mapping. For Telerik Data Access, Entity Developer supports import of existing Telerik Data Access visual designer models (*.rlinq) to make migration easier.

With a number of T4 templates for common use cases, it offers advanced code generation for Telerik Data Access and Entity Framework Core. It offers lots of features that were not available in original Telerik Data Access visual designer: model refactoring, much more convenient visual editors, LINQ que y execution against Teherik Data Access models, more enhanced model generation from over EDM Designer for Entity Framework v1 - v6, they are listed at https://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper/ed-vs-edm.htmls

About Devart

Devart is one of the leading developers of database tools and administration software, ALM solutions, data providers for various database servers, data integration and backup solutions. The company also implements Web and Mobile development projects.

Keyoti have released v6.1 of SearchUnit. An ASP.NET search engine control allowing Web Forms and MVC developers to provide full text search engine functionality to their web app users.

Improvements in v6.1

- The SearchUnit.js Javascript file now contains no lines over 3000 characters long (this is to help certain other developer tools that might not handle long lines) - Fix bug with highlighter when keywords start with a symbol. - Fix incorrect link generation during crawling when FriendlyURLs is enabled. - Improve redirected URL handling. - DocumentText class now includes Uri property. - Fix Windows Service timing being affected by manually triggered Service runs. - Fix bug in autocomplete when keyotiSearchAutocomplete.options.sew_runSearchOnSelect = false - Improve support for PDF's using a specific filter stream. - Improve handling of redirected pages.

Qoppa Software, a leading provider of Java PDF solutions, is pleased to announce jWordConvert™ v2016R1, the new version of their Microsoft® Word® to PDF conversion library written in Java. This release of jWordConvert includes a lot of font handling enhancements.

“We hope our customers will be happy with the new option to embed fonts when converting Word documents to PDF. Font embedding guarantees fidelity when rendering PDF documents across operating systems and platforms. To minimize the size of the output PDFs, fonts are automatically subsetted to only include the characters present in the document. Another feature added this version, is a better handling of non-Latin characters, including CJK and symbol fonts. " says Gerald Holmann, President of Qoppa Software.

The new Word to PDF conversion capabilities will be incorporated into Qoppa's desktop PDF editing application, PDF Studio, and Qoppa's workflow PDF solution, PDF Automation Server in the months to come.

About jWordConvert:

jWordConvert is a Java library for integration by developers into their Java applications on the server or client side. The library runs on all platforms including Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and Mac. It is self-contained and requires no third party software. jWordConvert can read and render Word files natively to convert to PDF, to convert to images, or to print the documents automatically. Resulting PDF documents can be protected with permissions and passwords for added security.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of multi-platform high-end libraries and applications to work with PDF documents. Qoppa Software offers a suite of products that cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows, including end-user, server and PDF library products. Qoppa’s products are carefully designed and developed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability.

LEAD Technologies has released a significant upgrade to its LEADTOOLS version 19 product line that touches a wide range of technologies including OCR, document imaging, medical imaging and PACS. “This release encapsulates LEAD’s commitment to its broad customer base and demonstrates the skill and diversity of our programmers and imaging experts, all of which continue to ensure LEADTOOLS’ position as the world-leading imaging SDK,” stated Jordan Shields, Vice President, LEAD Technologies. These updates are freely available to all registered LEADTOOLS Version 19 and annual maintenance customers.

New Java Libraries for Windows and LinuxMultiple coding teams at LEAD Technologies combined their efforts with a single purpose to resolve numerous customer requests for Java libraries for LEADTOOLS. These Java libraries expand LEADTOOLS functionality for Linux with support for OCR, Documents library services, Document Writers, Document Converter, vector and document formats such as PDF and DOCX, and SANE scanning. Additionally, the libraries provide a common programming interface to develop applications for Windows and Linux.

Document Writers Available for LinuxLEADTOOLS Document Writers are now available for Linux. LEADTOOLS’ Document Writers create PDF, PDF/A, DOCX, RTF, TEXT and ALTOXML from SVG input. Other technologies within LEADTOOLS that create SVG, such as OCR, can leverage the Document Writers to save these document formats.

Innovations Applied to the Advantage OCR EngineThe OCR specialists at LEAD Technologies continue to enhance the top-notch performance of the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR engine in both accuracy and speed. Sweeping improvements have been made for several core features including Latin and Korean language recognition, auto-zone for images with noise and graphics, and preprocessing of noisy images. Generated documents more closely resemble the original images through enhancements to foreground and background color detection, font type recognition, and a brand-new serif and sans-serif font typeface detection. LEAD Technologies continues to dedicate and add significant resources to meet the ever-growing demands of the market.

HTML5 Medical Viewer is Better than EverNumerous customer requests have been included in this release such as adding structured display and templates (custom and built-in) technology to the HTML5 Medical Viewer. With these features, the end-user can design custom display templates choosing from three ways to arrange series images: sequentially, DICOM instance number or custom JavaScript function. Users can save the templates to a LEADTOOLS storage server as a DICOM structured display dataset; the LEADTOOLS Medical Viewer will use them to render series.

Additional features added to the HTML5 Medical Web Viewer include rendering encapsulated PDF documents in a viewer frame, and users can now upload DICOM to the server directly from the viewer.

Besides adding new features, LEAD Technologies continues to refine the HTML5 Medical Viewer and related services. This latest update provides many speed upgrades, including load, window-level, image processing, and cine. These optimizations open the door to higher quality MPR output and real-time window-level of large projection radiographs such as mammography and x-ray images. Other enhancements include better spyglass functionality and support to load all types of images such as CT, MR, and MG. Stack functionality has been enhanced to handle large volume stacks such as CT and MRI, and perform synchronization on two large stacks of the same anatomy. The viewer can now generate high quality orthogonal slices and use a 3D cursor for smooth MPR navigation. Additionally, the probe tools have been strengthened by adding Hounsfield (HU) scale support.

Multi-Resolution and Tiled Image Technology Added to HTML5 Medical ViewerAt the core of several of the HTML5 Medical Web Viewer enhancements is the new multi-resolution and tiled image (MRTI) technology, which optimizes the delivery of large, extremely high-resolution (up to 1TB) images, including microscopy and pathology images. MRTI intelligently serves a portion and resolution of the image based on the specific client request. This saves bandwidth, reduces memory requirements, and increases the overall efficiency of the entire system.

WADO and DICOMweb InterfaceLEADTOOLS now provides extensive support for DICOM WADO, including WADO-URI, WADO-WS and DICOMweb (RESTful DICOM Services). Developers can use the API to directly access patient/study related data stored in third-party PACS or expose PACS data to direct third-party access using the DICOM defined HTTP protocol standard, including DICOM data storage (STOW-RS) over the web.

In addition, LEADTOOLS includes DICOMweb support for the LEADTOOLS high-level PACS Framework. This enables third-party systems to directly query (QIDO-RS), retrieve (WADO-RS), and store (STOW-RS) DICOM object over the web to its DICOM storage system using DICOM WADO protocol from anywhere, thereby removing the domain boundary limitation.

Advanced J2K TechnologyThe compression experts at LEAD Technologies have optimized the loading of heavily tiled J2K and TIFF J2K files. Additionally, they have expanded TIFF J2K technology in LEADTOOLS by adding functions to enumerate and load sub-resolutions of J2K data encapsulated in TIFF.

New Features Added to Annotation TechnologySnap-to-grid and alignment UI features have been added with this release. These features provide image markup formatting features usually only found in word processing and presentation applications.

New Image Processing FunctionsSalt & Pepper Noise Removal and UnWarp image processing functions are now available in LEADTOOLS. The UnWarp function removes the distortion in an image of a cylindrical object, as if removing a label from off of the cylinder and flattening it out.

About LEAD TechnologiesWith a rich history of more than 25 years, LEAD has established itself as the world's leading provider of software development toolkits for document, medical, multimedia, raster and vector imaging. LEAD's flagship product, LEADTOOLS, holds the top position in every major country throughout the world and boasts a healthy, diverse customer base and strong list of corporate partners including some of the largest and most influential organizations from around the globe. For more information please visit www.leadtools.com or contact sales@leadtools.com or support@leadtools.com.

Devart has released the first version of dbForge Data Generator for Oracle, a GUI tool for populating Oracle schemas with tons of realistic test data.

Devart, a recognized vendor of database management software, has released a new tool - dbForge Data Generator for Oracle v1.0. The product presents a GUI tool with a support of all Oracle Database versions for generating tons of realistic test data for Oracle schemas.

The tool provides an extensive collection of more than 190 basic and meaningful generators for various data types, flexible customization options, templates for creating custom generators, and much more.

PITTSBURGH, PA – March 17, 2016 - GrapeCity, the largest component solution provider in the Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem, today released GrapeCity Ultimate, its world-renowned offering which bundles the data and UI controls from ComponentOne Studio, Wijmo and Xuni together for web, desktop and mobile business application development. The first release of 2016 includes full Angular 2 support in Wijmo, the RTW release of Studio UWP Edition, and new controls including OLAP for Wijmo, FlexSheet for MVC and FlexPivot for WinForms, all which empower developers to spend less time coding and more time innovating.

“As the first control vendor to have controls written in TypeScript, Wijmo is driving the market by offering Angular 2 components as of December 21, 2015 for each of our UI Controls,” said Chris Bannon, product manager at GrapeCity.

Outlined in the blog post “Wijmo 2016 v1 has landed,” http://wijmo.com/wijmo-2016-v1-has-landed/ the company details that Wijmo’s Angular 2 components all offer fully declarative markup. Complete with data binding and cell templates, Wijmo controls including the datagrid, FlexGrid, allow developers to specify cell content in markup, including custom bindings and other components. “We have followed the same pattern that the Angular 2 team has set, so that when you use Wijmo components it will feel very familiar in Angular 2,” said Bannon.

Another big addition for developers working in HTML5/JavaScript is OLAP for Wijmo. This new OLAP module provides Excel-like pivot tables and charts, which allows end users to create their own analytical views of data. It is ideal for analyzing large data sets, such as from finance, healthcare and other data-intensive industries.

Released as a beta in November of 2015, GrapeCity has released to web its Studio UWP Edition, which offers a wide range of stable controls, ranging from grids to navigation to input, and the deep feature set enables a developer to jump-start implementation right out-of-the-box. Developers are able to leverage their XAML and C#/VB knowledge to build modern Windows apps and code just once across Windows 10 desktop, tablet, phone, and wearable devices.

GrapeCity and its flexible core controls have been extended to include a web-based spreadsheet control for MVC, FlexSheet for MVC, and FlexPivot for WinForms, a new Excel-like pivot table which allows users to process and aggregate millions of rows from dozens of data sources in milliseconds. Ranging from responsive to mobile first, along with fast and flexible, Ultimate offers developers a complete set of controls for increasing productivity when building enterprise applications.

Availability

The company offers a no-charge, 30-day trial of ComponentOne Studio, Wijmo and Xuni which may be downloaded at www.componentone.com/ultimate. Online visitors may also access tutorials, forums, documentation, and videos as part of the GrapeCity experience.

About GrapeCity

GrapeCity is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, and one of the world's largest providers of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. For close to 30 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services and solutions. Visit www.componentone.com/ultimate and follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/componentone

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PITTSBURGH, PA – March 8, 2016- At the O’Reilly Fluent Conference today, GrapeCity Inc., leaders in developer-productivity solutions, announced the company’s recent collaboration with Microsoft and the incorporation of Wijmo’s line of HTML5 and JavaScript products into the 2016 update of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

With the launch of the 2016 update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft’s latest version includes new mobile capabilities for administrators and customizers. To build the new mobile interface for its Dynamics CRM solution, Microsoft used the high-quality JavaScript controls in Wijmo 5, a collection of true JavaScript UI controls by GrapeCity. Complete with touch support and broad device support, clean design, and easily customizable controls, Wijmo 5’s gauge and input controls were helpful in developing user friendly interface options for Microsoft Dynamics customers.

"Businesses are increasingly looking for intelligent customer engagement solutions that provide a great mobile experience and Wijmo 5's touch support and mobile-friendly user interactions enable us to deliver that for our customers" said Param Kahlon, GM Microsoft Dynamics CRM Engineering at Microsoft. "With Wijmo’s extensibility model, the Microsoft Dynamics team was able to quickly customize and incorporate Wijmo 5 controls into our new release."

As to what is on the horizon for Wijmo, the company is planning to release a new installment of Wijmo (2016 v1) on March 15, 2016. Chris Bannon, product manager at GrapeCity, announced, "Our v1 release will offer new OLAP pivot controls focused on top performance and zero dependencies, along with several enhancements to input, exporting charts, creating PDF’s and full support for Angular 2."

Wijmo's collaboration with Microsoft, the upcoming release and the announcement of full Angular 2 support, is indicative of Wijmo's commitment to provide the most complete control toolset to help developers deliver touch-first, highly-responsive web apps across the enterprise.

We are happy to release GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET API to work with metadata associated with various document and image formats. The API facilitates the user with simple syntax, easy to use methods and few lines of code to perform metadata operations. It provides the support of many popular document and image formats and the number is going to increase in next release. Metadata is structured information that is used to contain important business information of different resources. Having the ability to filter through that metadata makes it much easier for someone to locate a specific resource. Keeping the eyes on the importance of metadata, GroupDocs team thought to make an API that will help users to deal with metadata in an easy manner. Today, we have successfully converted the idea into a fully functional product. GroupDocs.Metadata API is developed to empower developers and make their life easier while working with metadata. It is a very powerful and easy to use API that provides all basic metadata operation (i-e view, add, modify, remove) for a number of file formats. API gets the file as an input and makes its metadata accessible for the user. Now, it is up to the user to perform any of his desired operations on this metadata. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Create, modify and remove metadata associated with supported document and image formats with a few lines of code

Utilities to Compare and/or Clean all metadata

Working with Built-in metadata properties in documents

Working with Custom metadata properties in documents

Working with EXIF metadata properties in images

Working with XMP metadata properties in images

Metadata Comparison

Overview: GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET

View, Add, Modify & Remove Metadata details of Documents and Image file formats within .NET applications using GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET API. Perform built-in and custom metadata operations using simplest syntax and just a few lines of code. It supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and all image formats. It also supports extracting metadata elements and accessing file attributes. It supports Mono and .NET frameworks including all 64 and 86 bit operating systems.

ORPALIS is pleased to announce two simultaneous releases: the new major versions of GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK (version 12) and DocuVieware (version 2), the HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit.

The core of the SDK has been improved in terms of speed and accuracy and numerous new features have been added to both products. GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware cover .NET WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET and COM/ActiveX User Controls, making ORPALIS the editor of the most complete imaging toolkit of the market.

Integrators of GdPicture.NET can display a preview of DOCX files within their applications. The writing of Office Open XML Word Processing Document is possible by the mean of the Open XML SDK distributed within GdPicture.NET.

- Image processing

Convolution filtersConvolution filters based on convolution matrix are now available to apply a number of effects on the images: blurring, sharpening, edge detection, embossing, and more.

New document image binarizationThis new feature is an optimized version of the well-known “Bradley adaptive thresholding” algorithm. It improves the quality of the black and white picture submitted to the engines, OCR or barcode, boosting the accuracy of the recognition.

OtherSupport for 8-bit reversed grayscale palette JPEG and JPEG 2000 has been added.

- Document imaging

Advanced document utilitiesFast identification of the document format and preview (including thumbnails and counting the number of pages) are now offered. It is also possible to use specific fonts and new features like dispose image, empty cache and force garbage collection are available to optimize memory usage.

Blank page detection The accuracy of this functionality has been enhanced.

PDF supportOverall performance: version 12 is now 57% faster for reading, 12% faster for rendering and faster for generating a PDF than version 11.Shading: PDF rendering has been extended to all types of shading.Annotation links: it is now possible to link to a page within a PDF and not a website only.

PDF OCR and True Type fontsSearchable PDFs are now making use of True Type fonts, fixing some issues that may happen with Microsoft SharePoint and other popular ECM systems.

- General

GdPicture.NET is now distributed with a .NET Framework 4.6 version.The internal cache system of GdPicture.NET has been redesigned to improve the performances of the application when handling fonts. This new cache for system fonts dramatically reduces memory usage, reduces garbage collection time and speeds up the opening of new documents.

- Barcoding

The GdPicture.NET barcode reading engines (1D and 2D) are now 20% faster and more accurate with color images.

- OCR

The OCR engine is now based on the latest version of Tesseract. The accuracy of the page orientation detection technology has been improved without affecting its speed.

Various improvements are now available:- better speed of JPEG for recent Windows Server systems and 64-bit systems- improved DICOM parser- improved RAW support- better speed for decoding RAW images- extraction of the XML from RAW images- support for a wider set of cameras.

DocuVieware is a fully-customizable, fully-featured and universal HTML5 viewer and document management kit (www.docuvieware.com). Its purpose is to view, annotate and easily manage any document, on any device and any browser. It supports more nearly 100 file formats, including PDF, TIFF and SVG.

DocuVieware is compatible with ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. As a HTML5/AJAX control, it is cross-platform and works on any browser. Actions made on the document in server-side are updated in real-time on the client-side.

DocuVieware version 2 offers numerous enhancements to provide a faster display and a lower memory usage. The performances for latest Microsoft Windows Server operating system and the client side code (JavaScript) have been improved; DocuVieware 2 allows the same server hardware to support more concurrent users than DocuVieware 1. All improvements made in GdPicture.NET 12 affect this new version of DocuVieware.

The new features available in DocuVieware version 2 are:

Twain acquisition

Via a custom user interface, users are able to create new documents or add pages to existing documents by the mean of TWAIN acquisition for all widely used web browsers on any Windows operating systems starting with Windows Vista.

Form Fields

DocuVieware 2 introduces the support for PDF Form Fields. The fields are displayed, the user can fill the fields and the content of the fields can be save to the PDF. Finally, the server side application can read and write the content of the fields.

Event Page Transfer Ready

On the server side, it is now possible to customize the image that will be displayed to the user without affecting the actual document.

Custom Snap-In

With a custom snap-in it is possible to perfectly fit the user interface to the purpose of the application, dramatically improving the user experience. Business applications may benefit this possibility to improve the application efficiency by proposing to the user a snap-in adapted to the business process.

Page reordering

The user can reorder the pages of a document by a simple drag and drop.

Print options

By default the print option is set to “all pages”. When a page is selected, the print option is set to “current page”.

Several demos available at www.docuvieware-demo.com illustrate the new features and functionalities on the DocuVieware website. Upgrade prices are available.

About ORPALIS

ORPALIS is specialized in automating large-scale document-based processes and document imaging. ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive document imaging toolkit series released under the brand "GdPicture", which is now a worldwide known and respected leader in imaging technologies. More than 12,000 developers based in over 70 countries have included GdPicture components in their applications. In 2011 ORPALIS releases PaperScan, marking the beginning of a new line of products meant for end-users. PDF Reducer is launched in 2013. In 2015 a most powerful universal HTML5 viewer and document management kit called DocuVieware is made available to the public. The same year a software tool for converting documents into PDF/OCR, the ORPALIS PDF OCR, is launched.www.orpalis.com / www.gdpicture.com / www.docuvieware.com

Devart has released new versions of Devart Excel Add-ins 1.5 for connecting Excel to cloud and database data, editing this data, and saving it back to the data source. Now Devart Excel Add-ins include support for Microsoft Office 2016, new add-ins for Magento and for ExactTarget.

Devart team, a recognized vendor of professional database management software for developers and DBAs, has announced the release of Devart Excel Add-ins 1.5 — add-ins for Microsoft Excel that allow connecting Excel to cloud and database data, edit this data, and save it back to the data source. Now Devart Excel Add-ins include support for Microsoft Office 2016. Additionally there are new add-ins - for Magento and for ExactTarget.

Devart Excel Add-ins 1.5 include the following new features:* Support for Excel 2016* Support for Magento* Support for ExactTarget* Support for Web Login for Salesforce

Devart Excel Add-ins offer visual query builder which allows selecting the tables and columns to import, configuring data filters and the maximal number of records for the loading. Another option is using of SQL, which is supported not only for databases, but for cloud applications too. The full list of supported data sources includes SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2, Salesforce, QuickBooks, MailChimp, Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM, Zoho CRM, Bigcommerce, Magento, FreshBooks, ExactTarget.

Devart Excel Add-ins is available for 30-day evaluation period for free. The product license prices start from $99.95.

Devart is one of the leading developers of database tools and administration software, ALM solutions, data providers for various database servers, data integration and backup solutions. The company also implements Web and Mobile development projects.

SpecFlow, the popular open source Cucumber port for .NET, has been updated to version 2. The SpecFlow+ Runner extension has also been updated to support SpecFlow 2.

The latest version of the test execution suite introduces support for the NUnit 3.0 and xUnit 2.0 test runners, including parallel test execution. Other new features include support for Gherkin 3, the ability to determine the hook execution order, extensible table conversions and comparisons, and many other improvements and fixes. More details on the changes in V2 can be found on the SpecFlow website and in the changelog on GitHub.

SpecFlow+ Runner has also been updated to version 1.3 for compatibility with SpecFlow 2. SpecFlow+ Runner is a paid extension for SpecFlow that integrates directly with Visual Studio’s Test Explorer and extends SpecFlow with additional features such as HTML reports, execution statistics and smart test execution. Existing SpecFlow+ users can upgrade to the latest version free of charge until the end of February, even if their upgrade period has expired.

SpecFlow is open source licensed under BSD and developed by an active community from around the world. Providing Gherkin support for .NET, SpecFlow is the test execution platform of choice for agile development with Visual Studio.

Devart has released TMetric, a brand new web app for work time tracking and time management.

Devart, a recognized software vendor, has announced a release of brand new app TMetric - time tracking web application for IT-professionals and companies. TMetric provides time tracking, work session monitoring, reporting tools, integrations and much more features, which help organizations and individuals to effectively manage work time and increase their productivity.

The list of TMetric key features includes:

- Work Day Timeline - work day is visualized as a timeline. It is available to edit work time using only a mouse.

Along with database-oriented software, Devart offers productivity tools for Visual Studio and Skyvia, the cloud service for data integration, management and backup.For additional information about Devart visit https://www.devart.com.

Devart, a recognized vendor of database management software, has released new versions of dbForge tools for SQL Server product line – Data Generator for SQL Server v3.9 and dbForge SQL Decryptor v3.0.

dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server v3.9 includes the following improvements:

* RegExp generator allows to specify the name of a generator in the editor using the template $"generatorName". The data will be automatically generated based on the specified generator.* IronPython allows to use the internal RegexGenerator class.* Enhanced Check Constraint generator.

New version of <a href=”https://www.devart.com/dbforge/sql/data-generator/download.html”>dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server is available for free during a 30-day trial period or the Standard Edition for $249.95.

Devart announced the new release of dbForge Studio for SQL Server, v5.1. The updated IDE for SQL Server development and management has been improved with two brand new tools – Index Manager and Unit Test, as well as improved Data Generator and Source Control.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (PRWEB) DECEMBER 02, 2015IncrediBuild, the leading solution provider of software development and continuous delivery acceleration technology, is now integrated into Visual Studio 2015. Microsoft Corp. made the announcement as part of the Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 release.As a result of this integration, users may have IncrediBuild installed from within Visual Studio. Current users of Visual Studio 2015 will have IncrediBuild available in the latest software updates and it will also be included in all new Visual Studio 2015 releases.

IncrediBuild allows builds, testing, and other development processes to execute in parallel locally, over a build server, or harness ideal CPU cycles in other computers over the entire network. IncrediBuild also allows Visual Studio users to scale to the cloud and use Microsoft’s Azure to add more computing resources, substantially increasing performance, speeding build time, and improving developer productivity.

“This integration brings fast development and increased functionality immediately within Visual Studio to all programmers who use Visual Studio,” said Eyal Maor, CEO of IncrediBuild. “As time to market takes on paramount importance, it is vital for developers to have easy access to development acceleration and visualize their build in an integrated fashion. It enables better software development and faster time to market, all in one package. IncrediBuild has helped thousands of development teams speed up their entire development, enable significantly faster automated testing and reducing continuous integration cycles, accelerating not only code builds but also assets builds, simulation, rendering, and more. By natively integrating IncrediBuild within Visual Studio, every development team will have the best combination of acceleration and visualization solutions along with the most powerful and robust IDE.”

Anyone who installs IncrediBuild from within Visual Studio 2015 gets IncrediBuild for free on up to 8 cores of an individual workstation. Additionally, users receive four more agents that can be used on up to 8 cores for one month free, providing total capability of 40 cores to speed up their development. Predicted Execution -- a unique IncrediBuild technology –that gives additional acceleration capabilities - is exclusively included in this free version for Visual Studio customers. IncrediBuild’s visualization technology for build monitoring replay, analysis, and error detection is used within Visual Studio -- allowing on the fly identification of inefficiencies, errors, and bottlenecks.

“With this collaboration developers can use IncrediBuild’s build engine to lay out build plans for their applications with more parallelized execution of the build. This leverages hardware resources more effectively and provides monitoring to identify bottlenecks and better understand resource usage” said John Montgomery - Partner Director of Program Management for the Visual Studio Platform at Microsoft. The complete blog post can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/11/30/visual-studio-update-1-rtm.aspx

Seamlessly integrated into Visual Studio 2015, IncrediBuild provides capabilities not otherwise available, including: - Build Visualization – the ability to visualize the build process, easily detect errors, and identify bottlenecks for troubleshooting and optimization. - Predicted (Out of Order) Execution - using proprietary technology developed by IncrediBuild’s build experts, IncrediBuild’s predicted execution technology further optimizes the throughput (parallelization) and thus performance of C, C++, Android, and C# builds. - Virtual Machine Aggregation – IncrediBuild can combine multiple virtual machines from within Azure and utilize all of the cores on the aggregated virtual machines in order to accelerate development within Azure. - Game Development – In addition to Android Native C++ support, developers creating console, desktop, and mobile games can create a multiplatform game within a single solution that can be compiled simultaneously. There is no need to create separate compilations for each target platform.

IncrediBuild accelerates the entire Microsoft development platforms, including make and build tools such as MSBuild, development tools such as Team Foundation Server, unit and static code analysis tools such as MSTest, VSTest, and FXCop, game development such as Xbox, as well as Azure and Visual Studio Online.

All you need to do is navigate to Find New Projects within Visual Studio 2015. To start a new project, select the Build Accelerator tab and chose the IncrediBuild option.

For more information on IncrediBuild’s relationship with Microsoft and how IncrediBuild helps speed up Microsoft development: http://incredibuild.com/microsoft-incredibuild-partnership.html

About IncrediBuild

IncrediBuild is a leading solution provider of software development and continuous delivery acceleration technology. Harnessing unutilized processing power across networks, IncrediBuild speeds the code build and other compute intensive processes as part of the overall continuous integration (CI) and application life cycle management (ALM) processes. With its unique process virtualization technology, IncrediBuild has become the de facto standard solution for development acceleration. More than 100,000 users at over 2,000 companies and organizations depend on IncrediBuild, including 20 Fortune 100 companies.

LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce the release of a major update to the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Product lines. This update includes across-the-board enhancements to Optical Character Recognition including speed, accuracy and memory usage. In addition to the OCR enhancements, LEAD improved various document formats, updated DICOM Specification compliance, and added new features to the Medical Viewer control on multiple development platforms.

At the forefront of this update is the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR Engine. Every facet of the LEADTOOLS' OCR algorithm is now faster or more efficient. From high-level operations such as automatic zone detection and page insertion, all the way down to spell checking and memory usage, each piece of the algorithm has been improved. The cumulative effect of these improvements resulted in an 82% speed boost to the overall performance of the LEADTOOLS Advantage OCR Engine.

The improvements to the Advantage engine's AutoZone process did more than play a part in speeding up total recognition time. LEAD's AutoZone algorithm is able to recognize both vertical and horizontal text in the same document. Also, LEADTOOLS AutoZone goes beyond mixed language support and is even able to recognize different character sets such as Latin and Asian. These advanced techniques improved the recognition accuracy of the Advantage OCR engine, making it an incredibly competitive product for applications needing comprehensive OCR capabilities.

"Our Advantage OCR Engine is better than ever before," said Moe Daher, Chairman and CEO of LEAD Technologies. "Our developers are keenly aware of new technologies, hardware advancements and opportunities which open the door to improving our software development kits. This is one of the most comprehensive performance boosts ever to our OCR engine and we are excited to see it put to use in the real world where it can improve the many applications and enterprises relying on it."

OCR was not the only technology updated within Document Imaging. Several additions and improvements to loading and saving document formats were made, including faster loading times, support for PDF forms and PDF digital signatures, and the Document Viewer control was updated to use ASP.NET MVC and can now load from SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Docs. LEAD made various improvements to Annotations and Markup, added a new unstructured forms recognition feature, extended customization options for TWAIN Web Scanning, and enhanced the TWAIN engine providing 64-bit apps access to 32-bit drivers.

Developers targeting Medical Imaging markets benefit from updates to the Medical Viewer control including speed, memory enhancements, structured display, image projection, pinch zoom, a new Patient Restrict option, and several new display options for sorting, splitting and scrolling series. LEADTOOLS DICOM Data Set improvements include support for latest DICOM 2015C Information Object Definitions, exporting and importing Native DICOM XML Model (PS3.19), and exporting to DICOM JSON model (PS3.18). Lastly, the DICOM Storage Server has new features for managing connections and forwarding requests.

Overall, the speed improvements to OCR combined with additional enhancements to various Document and Medical imaging technologies have added significant value to the LEADTOOLS Version 19 product line. These updates are freely available to all registered LEADTOOLS Version 19 and annual maintenance customers.

About LEAD TechnologiesWith a rich history of over 25 years, LEAD has established itself as the world's leading provider of software development toolkits for document, medical, multimedia, raster and vector imaging. LEAD's flagship product, LEADTOOLS, holds the top position in every major country throughout the world and boasts a healthy, diverse customer base and strong list of corporate partners including some of the largest and most influential organizations around the globe. For more information, contact sales@leadtools.com or support@leadtools.com.

New release adds powerful microservice features to realtime apps and enables application logic to be executed directly within the Data Stream Network.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- NOVEMBER 18, 2015 -- PubNub, the world’s leading Data Stream Network for mobile applications, today announced the release of BLOCKS, a set of customizable microservices that give developers a simple way to add code and deploy features for realtime apps.

PubNub BLOCKS executes business logic directly on the data streaming through Pubnub’s network without splitting it off to an intermediary server controlled by the customer. This revolutionary approach streamlines app development, reduces endpoint-to-endpoint latency, and allows apps to better leverage the enormous scalability of PubNub’s Data Stream Network.

The Challenge Traditionally, developers have expended significant time and effort to collect streaming data onto their own servers to filter, transform, and otherwise process that data, only to push that data back to the network for delivery. This approach is both costly and complex, requiring in-house expertise in distributing computing and many servers to run relatively simple business logic.

PubNub BLOCKS is the Solution Using PubNub BLOCKS, developers can accelerate product development and reduce deployment costs by selecting from a catalog of microservices (such as BLOCKS for GPS location tracking or sensor data filtering and alerting) that developers can deploy, modify, and even create their own from scratch. PubNub BLOCKS executes directly inside the PubNub Data Stream Network across 15 global points of presence to deliver specific business functionality for realtime apps.

The initial rollout of PubNub BLOCKS will include the following customizable microservices: Chat Routing and Escalation – Transfer a chat session to another chat user or helpdesk repSpammer Throttle - Filter out messages according to pre-defined spam rulesSensor Anomaly Detection - Alert a user when a sensor reading passes a thresholdVote Count - Count votes as they pass through the network to display live resultsLeaderboard - Rank users or entities according to a key/value pairGeo Notification - Create an alert when a user is within a certain distance of anotherBitcoin Market Prices – Tap into a bitcoin API to get the latest priceSMS - Connect with a SMS vendor to send alertsEmail - Connect with an email vendor to send email notifications

Key Benefits Rapid Innovation—BLOCKS execute business logic within PubNub’s Data Stream Network to accelerate features from prototype to production.Minimal latency— Developers can offload work from intermediate servers by deploying customizable microservices in the network. Fewer server hops mean significantly reduced endpoint-to-endpoint latency, reduced server cost, and easier development.Maximum flexibility—Developers can choose from a catalog of pre-existing BLOCKS or build their own from scratch, providing infinite flexibility for how they manage their data streams within the PubNub network.Reduced time to market—BLOCKS speak JavaScript and SQL so developers can customize and build microservices in languages they already know.Global Scalability—PubNub BLOCKS is instantly replicated to 15 global points of presence, ensuring that stream logic happens at the point closest to any device’s location.

“Building realtime apps shouldn’t be anywhere near as difficult as it is today, which is why BLOCKS are a developer’s dream come true,” said Stephen Blum, CTO of PubNub. “They give engineers who are trying to solve difficult yet common problems an easy way to ship their features quickly while reducing their overall costs.”

PubNub BLOCKS early access will be available in January 2016. To request early access to PubNub BLOCKS, please visithttps://www.pubnub.com/blocks.

About PubNub PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API that enables its customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure provides the ability to easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit PubNub online at http://www.pubnub.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vimeo and Facebook.

VintaSoft Ltd releases the next major version 8.3 of its Imaging .NET SDK for WinForms, WPF and ASP.NET, which includes some brand new functionality along with lots of enhancements and improvements. The most outstanding features of the release is the support for ASP.NET MVC with HTML 5, PDF content removal and text obfuscation capabilities and support for work with PDF portfolio.

The implemented ASP.NET MVC 4 and HTML 5 web controls allows to view, annotate and edit images and PDF documents in ASP.NET MVC applications as well as there is available the new functionality for image processing in ASP.NET Web Forms applications.

Advanced support for work with PDF portfolio includes the abilities to create, delete, rename, export, import files and folders; define and obtain thumbnails for files and folders; create and edit the portfolio schema; create and edit the data fields of folder and files; manage the visual appearance of viewer.

The functionality for PDF content removal and text protection in PDF could exceed the most steep expectations. In first case, a text or vector graphics can be removed from PDF document, an image cleaned up or some redaction marks applied to a PDF document. All that leads to removal or black out of PDF content without the ability to restore. In turn, the text protection assumes the ability to obfuscate information about text encoding for the purpose of protection the document against text extraction. The most widespread TrueType fonts can be obfuscated.

The new release includes lots of performance and quality improvements for loading of thumbnails in WinForms and WPF, work with PDF fonts and PDF content rendering.

The broad set of demo applications has been complemented with new ASP.NET MVC Annotation Viewer, Barcode Reader, Image Viewer and PDF Viewer Demos.

VintaSoft's test system, containing tens of thousands automated and manual tests, is specially designed for delivering the most stable versions of our Document Imaging SDK for .NET, WPF and WEB to the software components market.

We have developed a large set of demo applications, created the detailed user guide and reference API documentation with only one intention - to make easier the life of programmers working with our SDK.

Unfortunately the scopes of this article do not allow to recount all new features released in version 8.3 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK and its Plug-ins. For more information please visit the product home page: http://www.vintasoft.com/vsimaging-dotnet-index.html

Promote Builders today announced an online matchmaking service for independent software developers with new products. The service connects them with marketing professionals willing to promote the product in exchange for company equity or a percentage of gross product sales for a fixed period of time.

The service is free for both software developers and marketers. After contact is made and the parties agree to terms for working together, Promote Builders recommends they formalize the relationship with a written contract. Examples are provided on the website.

Promote Builders accepts professional programmers and hobbyists. Many programmers work on pet projects in their spare time. Often, these software products sit on the shelf because the developer doesn’t want to or doesn’t know how to market the software. Promote Builders was designed to eliminate this obstacle.

“Prime Time is my educational math game,” said game designer Ben Shirley. “It help kids in the 3rd through 9th grade have fun as they learn math. Teachers and parents approve of the game. Students would even come to class early to play. Unfortunately, sales failed to materialize. Although I’d programmed since age 8, marketing was still a black box. The frustration of watching a good product die on the vine was the spark needed to create Promote Builders.”

Software Developers register for the site in the Builder role, which allows them to post their product in the Active Products list. Marketers register in the Promoter role and after reviewing Active Products, contact the Builder of the product they wish to market. Future enhancements to the site include automating contract creation, providing project management services, and granting access to a Kickstarter-like funding app designed for software product campaigns.

For more information or to sign up as a developer or marketer, visit Promote Builders.

Devart, a leading developer of database tools and database connectivity solutions, released new version of SecureBridge. Version 6.6 now supports the latest RAD Studio 10 Seattle. Other improvements include support for CTR enryption mode, and possibility to connect to SSH and SSL servers via HTTP Tunnel.

SecureBridge represents clients and servers for SSH, SFTP and SSL protocols as a network security solution. It protects any TCP traffic using SSH or SSL secure transport layer protocols, that provide authentication for both client and server, strong data encryption, and data integrity verification. SecureBridge components can be used in conjunction with data access components to prevent data interception or modification in an untrusted network.

Devart is a recognized vendor of database connectivity solutions for Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero Delphi development platforms as well as database development and management software. Company's solutions support such databases as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, DB2, SQLite, etc.

Along with database-oriented software, Devart offers productivity tools for Visual Studio and Skyvia, the cloud service for data integration, management and backup.

La Jolla, CA, USA — October 8, 2015 — MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio, today announced that it has published a new case study on Paragon Software Systems, a leading global provider of software for daily route scheduling and optimization, strategic transport planning, and real-time fleet management. Paragon replaced its existing solution with MadCap Flare for single-source, multi-channel publishing of modern online Help and print documentation. The case study can be viewed at: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/casestudy/paragonsoftwaresystems.aspx

On September 30, 2015, the Paragon System Operation Guide, which was created with MadCap Flare, won “Best Use of Video, Interaction and Multi-Media” at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) annual awards. The content takes advantage of MadCap Flare’s topic-based, single-source, and multi-media capabilities, and it is written in a logical structure, with each user guide aimed at a different category of user, complete with visually appealing, yet comprehensive information. Among the features: short videos with simple examples sit alongside the text; interactive “Quick Steps” offer a visual popup tool to help users navigate; interactive diagrams allow users to intuitively move between topics, and expanding images show additional detail while offering more in-depth descriptions in text.

Same Content, Multiple Print and Online Outputs

For more than three decades, Paragon Software Systems has been committed to helping customers improve their transport efficiency and raise service levels in their delivery operations. Today the company operates on a global scale with more than 3,300 systems at over 1,000 client sites supporting a range of applications from clotted cream deliveries to national retailers and global logistics operators.

Helping Paragon’s diverse customers to model, plan and monitor efficient routes requires a highly configurable software system. The company’s software employs hundreds of parameters to facilitate customization. Because this can drastically affect the way the system looks and works for different companies, Paragon’s documentation needs to be equally flexible.

For years, Paragon relied on two products to deliver its online Help and print documentation. However, in the wake of substantial growth, Paragon realized the need for a more efficient approach to delivering content. An evaluation of several tools on the market, led the company to MadCap Flare. The key benefits Paragon has realized include:

* Flare’s topic-based single-source publishing facilitates content reuse across Paragon’s online Help and four printed manuals.* Conditional tags, tables of contents, and worded cross-references in Flare enable Paragon to customize multiple print and online outputs with minimal effort.* Defined styles using Flare make it easy to create visual signposts for information, tips, warnings, licensed options, and instruction sets, so readers can quickly find the content they need.* Flare’s functionality for drop-down text in online Help lets readers quickly scan topics, select the one of interest, and then expand images or text to read it.* Together, navigation links and conditional tags in Flare can be used to automatically translate hypertext links in online content into worded cross-references for print, such as “See Getting Started on page 48.”* HTML5 output and features, such as frameless top navigation, are enabling Paragon to deliver new versions of online Help that more closely resemble the look and feel of its graphical user interface.

"We like the fact that MadCap offers a purpose-written solution at the forefront of the industry, orchestrated by dedicated professionals that are as passionate as we are about high quality documentation. Using MadCap Flare, we were able to produce much more attractive content within weeks,” said Gary Appleton, Paragon Software Systems technical author.”

“Serving a diverse range of businesses worldwide with its state-of-the-art software for optimizing, planning and monitoring efficient routes, Paragon understands first-hand the need to have accurate and readily available information,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “We are thrilled to congratulate Paragon on earning this highly regarded award from ISTC and are excited for the company’s success in using MadCap Flare to create intuitive and easy-to-navigate online Help and print documentation—all from the same core content.”

About Paragon Software Systems

Paragon Software Systems is a market leader in routing, scheduling and transport logistics optimization software with over 3,300 systems at over 1,000 client sites in more than 50 countries worldwide. A pioneer in vehicle routing and delivery scheduling, resource management and transport plan execution solutions, Paragon has 30-plus years of experience and an unparalleled track record of successful software implementations. Paragon software reduces transport costs by up to 20% through improved route planning and the more efficient deployment of vehicles and drivers. With global headquarters in the UK and a wholly owned subsidiary in the US, Paragon provides flexible solutions for transport operations ranging from just 10 vehicles at a single site to hundreds of vehicles operating from several sites. To learn more, visit, www.paragonrouting.com.

About MadCap Software

MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for single-source multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management. Whether delivering technical, policy, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap’s products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, video tutorials, knowledge bases, eBooks, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop or mobile. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.

DBI has been providing snap-in, Drag and Drop appointment scheduling and Data Presentation component software for twenty years and the release of Studio Controls .NET version 1.5 continues the company's market leading position - supplying Windows Developers with a full slate of industry tested component software. "Our customers include a long list of commercial software companies and corporate consultants who provide industry leading products that meet the needs of their ERP, MRP, CRM, SCM, Logistics, scheduling and resource planning focused market customers".

The release of Studio Controls .NET v1.5 and the creative new functionality packed into the Gauge, Label and Meter controls - not to mention the other Data, Scheduling and UI controls, demonstrates DBI's approach for solving many of the critical user experience design requirements developers face today. Fundamentally, end users want to have more direct interaction with the data they are working with - being able to use direct inline editing and intuitive real-time data presentations help increase efficiencies and user productivity.

The new visual presentation aspects of DBI's component software products offer an unparalleled set of developer focused tools. Studio Controls' new Graphical Data Presentation capabilities and User Drawn Resource List and Tree view control functions allow developers to fully extend their own data presentations in less time and with greater accuracy.

Studio Controls incorporates a full collection of data optimized controls that are well suited for the most demanding of enterprise applications, handling millions of data records. DBI continues to take advantage of the latest Visual Studio developments, offering developers a current selection of UI design, planning and appointment scheduling software based on advanced development architectures. Studio Controls .NET enables development teams with optimized UI design functionality for timely market responses and cost-effective results.

DBI's industry proven component-based software is found in commercial and enterprise solutions that support healthcare and logistics, manufacturing and assembly line production, ERP and CRM and many more industries. Designed to complement and enhance existing investments in enterprise resource planning, the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) solutions offered by DBI's Component Software hit the mark.

Availability

The company offers a no-charge, 30-day trial of Studio Controls .NET which may be downloaded at http://www.dbi-tech.com/Trials/dbi_TrialDownloads.aspx. Complete component samples, Developing With Tutorials and detailed component help is provided with each DBI product.

DBI Technologies Inc. is an industry proven supplier of innovative scheduling, resource planning, interface design and text analytic component software. DBI's focus is on empowering application development teams with the right tools, at the right time. DBI offers creative and innovative solutions for customers looking to incorporate industry leading technologies built on commercially sound component-based architectures.

dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server is a powerful GUI tool for a fast generation of large volumes of SQL Server test table data. The tool supports all column data types and allows to define tables and columns for data generation, set value ranges, customize parameters for each column data type, preview data before generation, edit and save data generation scripts for the future use.